RE: F 7 and ipw2200BG Problems

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On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:46 -0500, tbrowder wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman
> > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 20:45
> > To: For users of Fedora
> > Subject: RE: F 7 and ipw2200BG Problems
> ...
> > any case, if you have a 2200, you can safely remove the ipw2100-
> > firmware
> > RPM.
> 
> Done
> 
> > If you open System -> Administration -> Network, do you see eth1 and is
> > it
> > correctly listed as wireless?  In the Hardware tab, is it shown as the
> > correct type of device?  
> 
> yes
> 
> when I try to activate it I see an error message:
> 
>   Error for wireless request: "Set Bit Rate (8B20): SET
>      Failed on device eth1: Invalid argument.

That seems to be harmless.

What's in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1?



> 
> > In the Devices tab, if you select it and click
> > Edit, then select the Hardware device tab, does it show correctly?
> 
> Yes
> 
> > Does
> > it list the correct MAC address?
> 
> Yes
> 
> > What does lsmod | grep ipw show?  
> 
> ipw2200                   141449 0
> ieee80211                  35081 ipw2200
> 
> > What does iwconfig show?
> 
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"tomtomjr"
>           Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: Not-Associated   
>           Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=8/0  
>           Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Encryption key:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> -Tom
> 
> 
> 
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs


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